Ruyi Huilujan: Nanjing has a long history, and Nanjing people are willing to contact all kinds of snacks and history. Take this ordinary salt water drying for example, it is also associated with Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, he was tired of eating the delicacies in the palace. One day, he went out of the palace incognito and saw a snack bar frying tofu in the street. The smell was overflowing, the color was golden, and his appetite increased greatly. He took out a silver ingot and asked the shopkeeper to process a bowl of tofu fruit for him to enjoy. Seeing that he was a rich gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the tofu into the chicken soup pot and cooked it with a small amount of bean sprouts and seasonings until the tofu was soft and tender, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised it again and again after eating it. Since then, oily tofu has been all the rage and spread to this day. Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts when firing, its shape is very similar to the jade ruyi in ancient jade articles, so it is called ruyi drying.
Zhuangyuandou: Zhuangyuandou is one of the special snacks in Nanjing Confucius Temple. According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Dashi, a poor scholar who lived in the alley next to Jinsha well in the south of the city, studied until late at night every day because of his poor family. His mother cooked beans with Redmi and red dates, put the beans in a small bowl and gave him a red date to eat, encouraging him to study hard and win the top prize in the future. Later, Qin Dashi won the first prize, the story spread, and the champion fight became famous. . Some vendors take advantage of students' psychology to sell Zhuangyuan beans near Gong Yuan, the father-son temple, and say with the lining that "if you eat Zhuangyuan beans, you will be the champion". Zhuangyuan bean is actually spiced bean. Spiced beans, like spiced eggs, taste fragrant, salty, sweet and tender, and are very interesting to eat. Because it is cooked and eaten, it is generally rosewood color, elastic and fragrant, so it makes people want to stop eating.
2. Details of Qinhuai snacks Traditional Qinhuai snacks are rich in oil and polysaccharide, which is not suitable for modern people's eating habits. In the past twenty years, snack operators in Confucius Temple have developed some new varieties one after another. Recently, the varieties of "Eight Unique Snacks in Qinhuai" have been adjusted. The original snacks, such as scallion cake, five-color cake, shredded chicken noodles, pancake jiaozi, smoked fish noodles with silver thread and sweet-scented osmanthus dumplings, have been replaced by new snacks, such as Shao Shao, small tea, braised duck blood soup, steamed black-bone chicken, fried stinky dry, steamed plum cake and Shi Yuhua dumplings. Duck oil cake is golden in color, full in appearance and oil-free. Sesame oil perm-dried silk is as fine as silver, loose and not caked. The shape of bean sprouts dried by salt water is perfect and seems satisfactory. Duck blood in duck blood soup is sauce red and decorated with chopped green onion. After each snack is delivered to the guests, the waiter should introduce the historical allusions of the snack in standard Mandarin.
Walking into the "Yixian Building" where Qinhuai snacks are gathered, it is like a warm spring breeze driving "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees". Elegant and beautiful silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River depict the charm of a water town with a clear breeze and bright moon and a small bridge and flowing water. A celadon with a lid and a lotus lamp are placed on a painted porcelain dish, which makes people feel the flavor of the Ming and Qing teahouses. Perhaps it is a custom formed for thousands of years, and dining has its own set of dining procedures. Start making tea in your seat and help yourself to what you need. Some people like Cantonese medicinal diet, and ginseng, medlar and red dates are too numerous to mention. But I prefer the fragrant "Biluochun". I am fascinated by the green hills, blue waves and wild cranes in the three mountains of Taihu Lake. While drinking tea, appetizing snacks came to the table first: first, sugar-coated haws, a string of five hawthorns, red and bright, opened their mouths on the hawthorns, meaning "always smile."
Special snack
Snack is still a meal, and snack is not a meal. It is a kind of enjoyment in leisure. The snacks in Confucius Temple are particularly attractive, and the "Qinhuai Style" shows the profoundness of China's food culture. The snacks in Confucius Temple pay attention to the style of "color, fragrance, taste, shape and container". They should have a look, a taste and a poetic taste, which makes people salivate. Gold, Huang Chengcheng, green, glistening, such as the world, colorful; Sweet, salty, pickled, spicy, like an open life, all five flavors. Vegetarian fruits and vegetables, follow one's inclinations, spring, summer, autumn and winter, each collar * * *. In spring, there are shepherd's purse biscuits, steamed stuffed buns with vegetables and Confucius Temple snacks at the Sixi Lantern Festival. In summer, there are thousands of layers of oil cakes, flowering steamed buns and planed bean jelly; In autumn, there are crab roe, radish cake and chicken and duck blood soup. In winter, there are five-kernel steamed buns, crystal steamed buns and tofu brain. Old Huaiyang is famous for its flavor: soft and delicious dried silk; Steamed buns with moderate saltiness and sweetness are oily but not greasy; Huangqiao sesame seed cake with rich aroma and endless aftertaste, spicy bean curd, and "assorted snacks" that everyone likes to eat, each cage has five varieties of 10 pieces, which are both meat and vegetable, sweet and salty. Another feature of Confucius Temple is its flexible and vivid management mode. There are not only small brick houses with white walls and sloping houses, but also "Old Huaiyang" decorated with colored lights. There are many delicious ready-to-eat food stalls, touching smiles under the lights and folk songs, which bring warmth and joy to the psychedelic Qinhuai immersed in the sound of light and shadow.
Development history
Qinhuai snacks originated in the Six Dynasties (222~589) and became famous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Wu described it in his Scholars: "Pass a cup for a change, and in the afternoon, Du ordered people to bring snacks, that is, lard dumpling bait, duck steamed stuffed bun, goose oil cake and soft fragrant cake, which were served plate by plate." Everyone ate it. It was rain-fed Lu 'an Maojian tea, each with a bowl. Between the lines, you can see the scene of Qinhuai snacks in those days.
Nowadays, snacks in Confucius Temple are becoming more and more popular, such as spiced tea eggs, tofu, mandarin duck biscuits, jade buns, sweet potato with sweet osmanthus, honey lotus root, ..., and almost every snack bar has its own unique tricks, with more than 300 varieties, which is dazzling.
Snacks are famous, dry and thin, and the variety content changes with the seasons.
Eating snacks in Confucius Temple means eating a "small" word. The painted building where people sit is small and exquisite, the food is small but not much, and even the tableware is small but not much.
One side of the landscape, one side of the customs. Friends, the landscape of Qinhuai and the customs of the Six Dynasties can enjoy delicious food here.
Nanjing snacks have a long history and a wide variety, with more than 80 varieties since the Six Dynasties. Famous snacks are well-made, sweet and salty, and have different shapes. Qinhuai snack in Nanjing Confucius Temple is one of the four snack groups in China. Teahouses and restaurants in the Confucius Temple area are full of street snacks, forming a food concentration area with unique traditional characteristics of Qinhuai.
Qinhuai Snacks "Eight Absolutely"
First place: Huangqiao sesame seed cake and Kaiyang dried silk in Yonghe Garden.
Second best: Jiang's beef soup and beef fried dumpling.
The third must: tofu stains and scallion cakes in Liu Fengju
The fourth must-have: duck oil crisp sesame seed cake and assorted rice in Qifangge.
The fifth measure: Qifangge dried sesame oil shredded chicken.
The sixth wonder: jiaozi with sweet-scented osmanthus filling and five-color cakes in Lianhu Pastry Group Store.
No.7: Smoked fish in Zhanyuan noodle restaurant, with silver noodles, and jiaozi in a thin bag.
Eight musts: Kuiguangge spiced beans and spiced eggs.
3. History and stories about Confucius Temple. 1. History: Confucius Temple was built in Song Dynasty, next to Gong Yuan Street on the north bank of Qinhuai River. The Qinhuai River in front of the temple is Chi Pan, and the stone brick wall on the south bank is zhaobi, with a total length of110m and a height of10m, which is the highest in China. There are Juxing Court and Lesige in front of the North Shore Temple. On the central axis, there are buildings such as Lingxing Gate, Dachengmen, Dacheng Hall, Mingdetang and Zunjing Pavilion. In addition, there is Kuixing Pavilion in the east of the temple.
2. Story: The Confucius Temple, located on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, was built in the third year of Xiankang, Sima Yan, Eastern Jin Dynasty (337). According to Wang Dao's theory that "training talents is the key to governing the country", Imperial College was established on the south bank of Qinhuai River. At that time, there was only Gong Xue, and there was no Confucius Temple.
Confucius Temple was built in the first year of Jingyou (1034), expanding the Eastern Jin Academy. Because it is dedicated to Confucius, it is also called Confucius Temple. The purpose of building the Confucius Temple in front of Gong Xue is to hope that the literati will take the road of sages and receive feudal education.
From the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the prosperous scene and unique features of Shili Qinhuai were eulogized by literati in previous dynasties. Confucius Temple, located on the north bank of Qinhuai River, was originally a place for offering sacrifices to Confucius. It was built in the first year of Song Jingyiu (1034) and expanded from the former site of Gong Xue in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
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Confucius Temple, with its rich architectural style in Ming and Qing Dynasties, has become an important scenic spot in Shili Qinhuai Scenic Belt. It takes Dacheng Hall as the center, the north and south are on the same axis, and the left and right buildings are symmetrical, covering an area of about 26,300 square meters. Now it has been listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. Confucius Temple is located in the south of the city center, next to Gong Yuan Street on the north bank of Qinhuai River.
It is a bustling downtown area evolved from a cultural and educational center. What people usually call Confucius Temple actually includes the main buildings of Confucius Temple, Gong Xue and Gong Yuan.
Confucius Temple offers more than 200 kinds of traditional foods and snacks. The food culture of Confucius Temple has a long history, which can be traced back to the Six Dynasties, especially the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The food and snacks of various factions have different flavors. Since the reform and opening up, the city has excavated and sorted out scattered folk snacks, innovated on the basis of inheriting traditional characteristics, and formed Qinhuai snacks represented by "Qinhuai Eight Musts".
The snacks in Confucius Temple are provided in a dry and sparse way, mixed with meat and vegetables, interspersed with folk performances, with strong local characteristics and cultural atmosphere, which makes the catering process become a process of general cultural appreciation at the same time, reflecting the exquisite combination of catering and culture, attracting Chinese and foreign tourists for a long time and becoming an important pillar of the tourism economy of Confucius Temple and the characteristic culture of this region.